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OCTOBER 28, 2014

One of these conversations lead to a discussion about how leaders who want to push for change can deal with those above them who operate from the command-and-control style of leadership – in other words, those that subscribe to the overtly-controlling it’s my way or you’re out approach.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Growth Leaders – The CEO of a multi-billion dollar industrial products company boldly sets an ambitious growth goal of growing revenue by 40% over a three-year period. He has a Board-approved strategy, a solid operating plan with targets, and a newly developed business unit organization structure to implement it.

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AUGUST 5, 2014

Breakthroughs in human brain research (using conventional experimental psychology research in addition to relatively new technologies like CT scans and magnetic resonance imaging) are revealing new insights about cognitive processes. The “Why” of Everyday Work People do not have just one way of operating.

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OCTOBER 9, 2012

While I might be familiar with the goals and challenges we’ll have to address, the team itself has changed as more than half of the members are both new to the team and new to the process of governing an educational institution. Rather, your goal should be to empower everyone at the table to be full contributors and participants.

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JULY 15, 2014

At the time we were writing this piece, Chris was stationed at Kabul, Afghanistan as the Chief of Staff/Chief Operating Officer for the NATO Air Training Command. Your first goal in taking over an established team is to keep the fire burning toward success. Are You Creating Value Through Your Leadership?

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FEBRUARY 26, 2013

However, as the crows demonstrate, even when change is forced upon us externally through unexpected or uncontrollable factors, we can still transform these disruptions in how we operate into opportunities that can provide us with a beneficial advantage over our competitors.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Since writing about the nature of success and failure , I’ve had a number of colleagues express interest in discussing the process of experimentation with me, given my background in the sciences field. In other words, a goal which can serve to define the purpose behind your shared efforts.

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DECEMBER 27, 2016

And while the voting process for Brexit and the US presidential election was held this year, the real consequences and impact of those choices won’t be truly felt or understood until well into 2017 and beyond. 4 New Year’s Resolutions To Help Your Organization Succeed This Year.

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JANUARY 22, 2013

Granted, most of us are rather effective at developing strategies and goal-setting. What would it take for us to feel successful in the long run beyond simply achieving our goals or targets? Some other posts you may enjoy: This Year, Be Ready Have You Tied Your Organization’s Goals To Your Noble Cause?

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JULY 29, 2014

The work routines employed by many of these leaders leave them operating more in a reactive, instead of reflective mode, so spending any time on pondering the long-view can seem almost like a luxury. ’ moments that precede unique discoveries or innovations.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

When it comes to leading teams, the common focus in the leadership literature tends to be on team building; on answering the question of how do we rally people and get them on board and aligned with our company’s vision or long-term goals.

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DECEMBER 1, 2015

As Fizzle CEO, Corbett Barr, told me: I stay productive by developing and maintaining what I call a personal “operating system”, which is a set of processes, tools and checkpoints that define how I get work done every day. The specifics of an operating system differ from person to person, but the important thing is that you have one.

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JANUARY 12, 2016

There is a change happening at the very top of the organizational hierarchy that, like a weather vane, reflects some of the fundamental changes happening across every organization and the marketplace they operate in. Trust is created through a ubiquitous four-stage process: 1. Perception 3. Assessment 4.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2014

What’s been interesting about this process is how in many of these conversations, there was much interest to discuss the point made in the book about the importance of leaders fostering a sense of community in their organizations.

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JANUARY 9, 2018

With the New Year now well under way, many of us are understandably creating goals and developing plans for what we’d like to achieve over the course of the next 12 months. This is that roadblock that impedes so many of us from taking those critical first steps in this journey of change.

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AUGUST 23, 2011

As such, the absence of team members during the summer time can actually provide leaders with a welcome break to do a more in-depth review of where they are in reaching their shared goals and consequently, developing a better understanding of where to focus their team’s efforts when they return to full force at the end of summer.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

In other words, break down your big picture into realistic and measurable goals with dates for completion, then celebrate the success by reporting back to the group the impact of their contribution. The solution: Go ahead and share the big picture, then manage the change by breaking it down.

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JULY 30, 2013

In this way, courageous leaders are able to manage their fears because they understand that leadership is a never-ending learning process , instead of a fixed destination that you arrive at after serving your time in the trenches. Rather, our fears will naturally ebb and flow in response to the changing conditions we have to deal with.

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DECEMBER 30, 2014

Each of these initiatives can encourage our brain to build new cognitive pathways that will help us to connect seemingly unrelated concepts using a neurological mechanism called “global processing”, a process that often leads to those ‘A-ha!’ Again, the importance of this can best be appreciated when we consider how our brain operates.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2012

With this in mind, I want to share three strategies leaders can use to ensure that their words and actions don’t inadvertently activate these neurological responses that can limit your team’s creativity and willingness to collaborate with others in order to achieve your organization’s shared goals.

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MAY 13, 2014

After all, given the fact that many organizations have been operating in survivalist mode for the past couple of years, it’s understandable that leaders will want to make sure that they’re not putting their current or future successes at risk by seemingly leaving things up to chance.

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DECEMBER 22, 2015

It’s little surprise, then, that soon after the start of this upcoming new year, many of us will be left feeling as if those plans and goals we set for ourselves to achieve were simply an adult version of calling out “do-over!”, hoping that the chance to start over will somehow lead us to a better reality than the one we have right now.

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OCTOBER 6, 2015

Specifically, how do we keep employees invested in the long-term goals of our organization? The researchers refer to this behaviour as the “small area hypothesis” which states that “how people monitor their progress toward goal completion influences their motivation”.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Indeed, we have to recognize that while some constraints can challenge our assumptions of what’s possible, others only serve to restrict our movements and capacity to envision alternatives that can help us to achieve our goals.

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DECEMBER 9, 2014

Although I sympathize with the challenges they face, and the complexities that now dot the landscape of operating in this 24/7 global environment, the reality that we all have to own up to is that leadership is hard. Rather, it is a natural part of the landscape of those human endeavours, of those lofty goals that are worth pursuing.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Not so much in terms of how successful we were in attaining our objectives, but in how certain parties approached the collaboration process. We have to remember that the long-term goal of collaboration is strengthening our ability to work together [ Share on Twitter ].

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JUNE 26, 2012

After all, it’s the leader who not only defines the nature and purpose of the team’s effort, but also serves to exemplify the behaviour and attitudes of how the team will operate as a unit. When it comes to leading your employees, it’s important to get to know them beyond the roles or functions that are assigned to them.

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JANUARY 27, 2015

Identify and rally ‘change champions’ in your organization Now before we can put into action measures to cure a toxic workplace, we need to first understand something about how our brain operates. Neuroscience has shown that our brains are hard-wired to avoid threats in our environment.

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AUGUST 13, 2013

People have trouble reaching goals and pursuing dreams for one (or many) of the following pride-related reasons: They are too prideful to risk appearing “stupid.” People who let pride drag them down to that type of thinking or behavior are guaranteed to lose friends and opportunity in the process.

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JANUARY 5, 2016

And this is understandable if we appreciate that – thanks to the faster-pace by which we now have to operate – it’s become harder for people to make those connections for themselves.” Leadership Insight #8 – Your employees need to see that you care about them as much as you care about your goals [ Share on Twitter ].

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JULY 28, 2015

Through each of these activities, we’re helping our brain to create new cognitive pathways because we’re going off our well-worn paths, employing a mechanism neuroscientists refer to as “global processing”. It’s this process which often precedes those ‘A-ha!’

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MAY 12, 2015

Rather, these leaders understood that the key to creating a compelling vision or goal that others would want to be a part of requires that we put our focus on how to create a supportive environment; that as leaders, we need to care more about doing right by our employees, than on being right [ Share on Twitter ].

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NOVEMBER 24, 2015

What if the actions we’re taking overlook a key aspect of how our brain operates? In addition to authoring several books including “ Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals ” and “ Focus ”, Heidi is a frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, The Wall Street Journal, and Psychology Today.

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MARCH 16, 2011

However, it does provide a good backdrop for leaders who are still unsure of the role social media will play in how their organizations operate. For regular users of the various social media channels, the ideas and points presented in these early chapters are not anything new or surprising.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Regardless of what position they hold or what industry they operate within, today’s leaders need to make sure that their actions and words serve to answer this one important question – what is our purpose?

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NOVEMBER 17, 2015

It’s recognizing that thanks to the faster paced, interconnected global environment that we all have to operate within, no one person can have all the answers and that the key to succeeding is ensuring that everyone we lead feels a sense of shared ownership in both the vision and in the process.

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MARCH 26, 2013

That it has to change or challenge the status quo of how people operate or do things. That in the process of achieving our shared goals, those around us feel honoured, respected, valued and needed? Consider, for example, the current obsession over innovation.

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